{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["33(11)"],"submitter":["Gautier M"],"pubmed_abstract":["As the largest European herbivore, the wisent (Bison bonasus) is emblematic of the continent wildlife but has unclear origins. Here, we infer its demographic and adaptive histories from two individual whole-genome sequences via a detailed comparative analysis with bovine genomes. We estimate that the wisent and bovine species diverged from 1.7 × 10<sup>6</sup> to 850,000 years before present (YBP) through a speciation process involving an extended period of limited gene flow. Our data further support the occurrence of more recent secondary contacts, posterior to the Bos taurus and Bos indicus divergence (∼150,000 YBP), between the wisent and (European) taurine cattle lineages. Although the wisent and bovine population sizes experienced a similar sharp decline since the Last Glacial Maximum"],"journal":["Molecular biology and evolution"],"pagination":["2801-2814"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC5062319"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Deciphering the Wisent Demographic and Adaptive Histories from Individual Whole-Genome Sequences."],"pmcid":["PMC5062319"],"pubmed_authors":["Grohs C","Kowalczyk R","Parinello H","Gautier M","Leveziel H","Moazami-Goudarzi K","Rialle S","Flori L"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Deciphering the Wisent Demographic and Adaptive Histories from Individual Whole-Genome Sequences.","description":"As the largest European herbivore, the wisent (Bison bonasus) is emblematic of the continent wildlife but has unclear origins. Here, we infer its demographic and adaptive histories from two individual whole-genome sequences via a detailed comparative analysis with bovine genomes. We estimate that the wisent and bovine species diverged from 1.7 × 10<sup>6</sup> to 850,000 years before present (YBP) through a speciation process involving an extended period of limited gene flow. Our data further support the occurrence of more recent secondary contacts, posterior to the Bos taurus and Bos indicus divergence (∼150,000 YBP), between the wisent and (European) taurine cattle lineages. Although the wisent and bovine population sizes experienced a similar sharp decline since the Last Glacial Maximum","dates":{"release":"2016-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2016 Nov","modification":"2026-05-01T21:21:40.322Z","creation":"2019-03-27T02:26:33Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC5062319","cross_references":{"pubmed":["27436010"],"doi":["10.1093/molbev/msw144"]}}